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Swapping The Present For A Future: The VERVE Anthology of Beginnings

Swapping The Present For A Future: The VERVE Anthology of Beginnings


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This books contains the winning and commended poems from the VERVE Festival 2022 competition on the theme of BEGINNINGS.

We hoped that this year’s poems would, in part, reflect the pause that the pandemic that shall not be named has forced upon us all, some violently, some peacefully, but all of us together, pausing. We hoped they would also, in part, be a celebration of the opportunities that this brief pause might have given us, the new directions that may have emerged as a result. But the pandemic has been a harrowing thing for many, with loved ones lost, careers ended, financial struggles, and these things won’t just disappear with a vaccine and the return of live arts events. With every beginning there is also an end, and not all that is new is for the best.

These poems, in part, deal with these issues and also do so many other things! As we all experience things that are different – and things that are the same differently – so these poems jump aside from each other and claim their own space. But it feels like there is a freshness to them – a new energy that perhaps wasn’t there before. Perhaps they have this in common. We can’t wait to see where these beginnings lead us!



About the Author :
Caroline Bird is a poet and playwright. Her 2017 collection, In These Days of Prohibition, was shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize and the Ted Hughes Award. A two-time winner of the Foyle Young Poets Award, her first collection Looking Through Letterboxes was published in 2002 when she was 15. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2002 and was shortlisted for the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2001 and the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2008 and 2010. She was shortlisted for Most Promising New Playwright at the Off-West-End Awards, and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Her theatre credits include: The Trojan Women (Gate Theatre, 2012), The Trial of Dennis the Menace (Purcell Room, 2012), Chamber Piece (Lyric Hammersmith, 2013), The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Northern Stage, 2015), and The Iphigenia Quartet (Gate Theatre, 2016). She was one of the five official poets at the 2012 London Olympics. Her sixth Carcanet collection, The Air Year, was published in February 2020.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781913917258
  • Publisher: Verve Poetry Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Verve Poetry Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 68
  • Weight: 150 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1913917258
  • Publisher Date: 20 Feb 2022
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: The VERVE Anthology of Beginnings
  • Width: 138 mm


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